DAY AND NIGHT ON THE SUFI PATH

53]. The Sufi Path, insha Allah, has the power to place one in the near Presence of Allah--a Presence which, whether or not we are always conscious of it, alchemizes the Heart. The changes the Heart undergoes by the power of this Presence have been recorded by the Sufis over many centuries, and some of the operative laws behind these changes discerned and defined. This book contains only one small drop from that vast ocean of knowledge, it attempts to define a number of the spiritual states and transformations of the self often encountered over the course of the Path--but as the author s own shaykh reminds his followers, in reality there is only one state--Allah. This is simply the best and most profound book on Sufism that I have encountered. --Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope